Fence



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY T. LEE AND CHARLES PROTSMAN, OF TULLAHOMA, TENNESSEE.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 370,954, dated October 4, 1887.

Application filed January 8` 1887. Serial No. 223,809. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY T. LEE and CHAELEs PRoTsii/TAN, of Tullahoma, in the vcounty of Coffee and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fences, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to fences made in panels formed of rails held together by loopedwire hangers and supported upon inclined stakes secured to said panels and to said looped-wire hangers, and suspended at their upper ends to hang between the said inclined stakes. Y

The object of our invention is to provide a rail or board fence which will be inexpensive, strong, and durable, which may be quickly erected, disconnected, removed, or repaired by a single person,and which will be composed ot'interchangeable parts adapted to t together without the employment of tie-wires, nails, or other permanent fastenings.

The improvement consists in certain constructions and combinations of parts, hereinafter described, and particularly designated in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective of a section of fence constructed in accordance with our invention; Eig. 2, a transverse sectional elevation of the same in the line w .t of Eig. 1, and Fig. 3 an enlarged sectional detail through the rail-joint and a section of suspension wires or hangers having loops to embrace the rails.

The fence is composed of iive parts-viz., stakes A, wire hangers B, loops O, panel-rails D, and top rails, E. The stakes A are of any preferred form set up on ends, inclined and crossed at their upper ends above the top rails, E, and secured together by loops C. The Wire hangers B are formed of a central suspension-wire, B', and a loop-wire, B2, twisted upon the central wire, B', to provide a series of loops, B3, arranged in pairs upon opposite sides of the said central wire, B', through which loops the ends of the panelrails D are passed. The top rail, E, is beveled to give it a triangular cross-section with inclined sides, against which the inclined stakes A of the fence closely t and hold the said top rail securely down upon the loop B3 at the upper end of the hanger B. The upper loop, B3, is adj usted to t stakes of any size by varying the angle of the crossstakes one with the other, and the loops B3 will hold with equal security the ends of varioussized rails, while the central wire, B', passes between the adjacent ends of the said rails and serves as a partition between the loops and rails to prevent one rail from sliding over or binding the other.

As the Vcentral wire, B', and loop-wires B2 are twisted together and extend in an unbroken section from one end to the other end of said hanger,.a strong, durable, and sufficiently rigid structure is obtained to firmly hold the ends of the rails against any strains which may be brought upon them.

`The top rails, E, being beveled near their ends,will lit closely in the angle between the stakes A and the upper loop, B3, and tie the cross-stakes at one end of the panel with the cross-stakes at the other end of said panel,and support each panel independently of the adjacent panel. Each alternate panel is unprovided with a top rail, and the rails or boards in any panel not provided with a top rail may be easily re1noved,in the same manner as sliding bars of well-known construction, to provide a gap or opening in the fence at any required point in the line of the fence and allow communication between adjacent fields at said points.

The fence may be erectedor removed by a single person, one piece at a time, until 1inished. The suspension `wires or hangers are all made ofthesame pattern, and may be manufactured by suitable machinery and placed upon the market in various sizes. The various parts of the fence being complete in themselves and interchangeable, may be hauled to the `field and set up without tying or twisting the wires and without the employment of other fastenings.

W'e claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination, with the crossed stakes A, top rail, E, and panelrails D, of the wire hanger B, which connects said stakes below their point of intersection, and also supports the top rail, the same being formed of a central suspension-wire, B', and loop-wires B2, which are twisted upon the latter at intervals of space and bent outward at intervening spaces to form the lateral loops B3, that receive the pauelrails, as shown and described.

HENRY T. LEE.

CHARLES PROTSMAN. Witnesses:

H. F. SMORTT, Cults. F. REED.

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